CROWN GALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crown gall mean? 

• CROWN GALL (noun)
  The noun CROWN GALL has 1 sense:

1. a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground

  Familiarity information: CROWN GALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWN GALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("crown gall" is a kind of...):

plant disease (a disease that affects plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crown gall"):

hairy root (a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots)

 Context examples 

A. tumefaciens is commonly found in soil and around the root surfaces of plants and is the causative agent of crown gall disease.

(Agrobacterium tumefaciens, NCI Thesaurus)